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Regarding his status when receiving his Fields Medal in 1982, Yau stated "I am proud to say that when I was awarded the Fields Medal in mathematics, I held no passport of any country and should certainly be considered Chinese." Yau remained "stateless" until 1990, when he obtained United States citizenship.
4 April 1949. Kwuntung (now Guangdong), China. Summary. Shing-Tung Yau is a Chinese mathematician who won a Fields Medal for his work on differential geometry and partial differential equations. He has also received other prestigious mathematical prizes such as the Wolf Prize and the Shaw Prize. View nine larger pictures. Biography.
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May 8, 2024 · Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949, Swatow, China) is a Chinese-born mathematician who won the 1982 Fields Medal for his work in differential geometry. Yau received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1971.
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Oct 17, 2006 · Prizes and honors flowed Dr. Yau’s way after the Calabi triumph, including the Fields Medal, a MacArthur “genius” grant in 1985 and a National Medal of Science in 1997. He became a...
Aug 28, 2006 · Yau persuaded a Hong Kong real-estate mogul to help finance a mathematics institute at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, and to endow a Fields-style medal for Chinese...
Few mathematicians can match Yau’s achievements in depth, in impact, and in the diversity of methods and applica-tions." In 1983, Yau was awarded a Fields medal. In describing Yau’s work for occasion, L.Nirenberg wrote: \Yau has done extremely deep work in global geometry and elliptic partial di erential equations,
Oct 17, 2006 · In 2004, Yau was honored at the Great Hall of the People for his contributions to Chinese mathematics. In a speech he said that when he won the Fields Medal, "I held no passport of any...
